Cafe Au’ Lait
Informant Info: Libby Flint, age 59, New Orleans resident of 36 years, originally from Upstate New York and Vermont. Collected May 22, 2016 via iphone.
Verbal Lore: Folk Speech, slang- associated with material food lore
English/ French
United States of America
Context: coffee with steamed milk, otherwise known as a latte in the rest of the US
Transcript:
“people here drink Café au’laits rather then lattes”
Collector Commentary: The Cafe Au’ Lait is the common term in NO for coffe with steamed milk. it is originally a french term and is used in french speaking canade and France as well as New Orleans. As a slang word it is not uniqe to NO within the world sphere, but it is unique to NO within contemporary American (United States of America) folk speech.
Keywords: coffee, latte, cafe au’ lait